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Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Politicians don’t like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car’s gas gauge, and you get stranded Picture Quote #1

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it Picture Quote #1

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn’t because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil Picture Quote #1

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it’s power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free Picture Quote #1

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things Picture Quote #1

Regardless of how it’s done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you’re in the transaction business. They’re wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy Picture Quote #1

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Movies such as ‘Citizen Kane’ and ‘The Front Page’ portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.’s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the ‘News of the World.’ Picture Quote #1

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it’s a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won’t mix with it. And then there’s how much energy it takes to heat water Picture Quote #1

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world’s oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown Picture Quote #1

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration Picture Quote #1

Chefs think about what it’s like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works Picture Quote #1

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience Picture Quote #1

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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food Picture Quote #1

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith Picture Quote #1

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There’s no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what’s available Picture Quote #1

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I’d love to say it all turned out great. It didn’t. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it Picture Quote #1

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We’re more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months Picture Quote #1

I’ve been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue’s interesting, because it’s one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there’s tremendous traditions; there’s secrecy Picture Quote #1

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can’t stick to don’t do you any good. Some people say, ‘Just eat half of what’s on your plate,’ but I can’t do that! Picture Quote #1

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something Picture Quote #1

Software sucks because users demand it to Picture Quote #1

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container Picture Quote #1

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Don’t let the secret recipe die with the inventor Picture Quote #1

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing Picture Quote #1

If people don’t find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important Picture Quote #1

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates’ relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly Picture Quote #1

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato Picture Quote #1

No CEO ever says, ‘Damnit, we need to increase research!’ I want to encourage them to do that Picture Quote #1

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Politicians don’t like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car’s gas gauge, and you get stranded. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn’t because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it’s power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Regardless of how it’s done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you’re in the transaction business. They’re wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Movies such as ‘Citizen Kane’ and ‘The Front Page’ portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.’s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the ‘News of the World.’ (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it’s a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won’t mix with it. And then there’s how much energy it takes to heat water. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world’s oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Chefs think about what it’s like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience. (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won’t be the Apple of yore (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There’s no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what’s available (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I’d love to say it all turned out great. It didn’t. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) We’re more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) I’ve been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue’s interesting, because it’s one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there’s tremendous traditions; there’s secrecy (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can’t stick to don’t do you any good. Some people say, ‘Just eat half of what’s on your plate,’ but I can’t do that! (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Software sucks because users demand it to (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Don’t let the secret recipe die with the inventor (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) If people don’t find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates’ relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes) No CEO ever says, ‘Damnit, we need to increase research!’ I want to encourage them to do that (Nathan Myhrvold Quotes)

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